Heavy rain, snowfall likely at some places in U'kashi, Chamoli, R'prayag, Tehri, Doon dists today

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The Meteorological centre has forecast heavy rain/snowfall at isolated places in Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Rudraprayag, Tehri and Dehradun districts on Tuesday while predicting dry weather in the rest of Uttarakhand. Snowfall is likely to occur in places located at altitude of 2000 metres and above. Meteorological centre director Bikram Singh said that the minimum temperatures remained normal to appreciably above normal in the plains and also appreciably above normal in the mountains of Uttarakhand. lowest minimum temperature 3.3°C was recorded in Munsiyari. The meteorological centre also issued a warning forecasting the probability of heavy rain/snowfall at isolated places in Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Rudraprayag, Tehri and Dehradun districts on Republic Day, January 26.

 The weather forecast for Dehradun on Tuesday is clear to partly cloudy sky. Thunder cloud development/light rain is likely to occur towards evening/night on Tuesday.

The maximum and minimum temperatures are likely to be around 25 ºC and 09 ºC respectively in Dehradun on Tuesday. Maximum and minimum temperatures were recorded at 23.8ºC (four degree above the normal) and 8.5ºC (three degree above the normal) in Dehradun respectively while it was 17ºC (five degree above the normal) and 4.1ºC (three degree above the normal) in Mukteshwar and 25.5ºC (five degree above the normal) and 4.5ºC (normal) in Pantnagar on Monday. In Tehri district, maximum temperature was reported as 16.1 degree Celsius while minimum was 4.6 degree Celsius on Monday.

Singh issued warning forecasting the possibility of heavy rain/snowfall at isolated places in Uttarkashi, Chamoli, Rudraprayag, Tehri and Dehradun districts on Republic Day.  

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